Improvement in blast-regulators for grain-separators



U. H. FALING. Blast-Regulators for Grain-Separators;

No. 216,732. Patented June. 24,1 879.

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N-PETERS, PHOTO'LITHOGRAPHER WASHINGTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. FALING, OF TONAWANDA, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BLAST-REGULATORS FOR GRAlN-SEPARATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 216,732, dated J one '24, 1879; application filed March 31, 1879. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES HIRAM FAL- ING, of Tonawanda, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have made certain Improvements in Blast-Regulators for Grain- Separators, of which the following is a specifieatlon.

The object of this invention is to permit the opening or closing, wholly or partly, of the slides on bothsides of the fan-case from either side of the machine, so as to graduate the draft or flow of wind through the fan-case; and the invention consists in the arrangement of four lever-handles on each side, attached to rods, two of the lever-handles operating the slides of one side, and two others the slides on the opposite side, all as hereinafter fully explained.

In the drawings, Figurel is a perspective of the fan-case, &c.; and Fig. 2,a plan of the same, showing the sides, the rods, and thelever-handles.

A A represent the sides of the case. (The fan not shown.) B B B B are the slides, two on. each side, and moving in longitudinal Ways a a, as usual.

Theobjection tothese slidesin separators,&c., is, that the machine at work in a barn is liable,

by the peculiar direction or force of the wind,

to require frequent adjusting of the slidesthat is, one side to be partly closed or partly open, as the case may be--or a shift of wind will blow the stuff in such a way as to require closing the slides on the opposite side. To do this one must clamber over the machine, or crawl under or go around it-sometimcs a difficult matter, in consequence of the accu- 1n ulation of the grain or other stuff that is being separated piling up about the machine.

To obviate this, and operate all the slides from one side, I attach to each of the four slides (two on each side) a lever'handle, 1 2 3 4. For example, No. 1 lever operates slide B by having a slot, b, in the side of the lever, with a pin, 0, attached to slide 13, projectin g through No. 2, the same, having also a slot, b, in the lever, with a pin, 0, attached to the slide B By these levers 1 2 the slides on this side are opened or closed, and to open or close them from the'other side the lower ends of both these levers are set on by nuts, keys, or other devices, each to a rod running under the fan-ease, coming out on the opposite side, and with short levers 1 2 attached to the rod similar to Nos. 1 and 2. Thus, lever 1, attached to rod (1, has lever 1 on the other side, both operatin slide B Lever 2, attached to rod 1;, has lever 2 on other side, both 0PM- ating slide 13 from either side. The other side of the fan-case A is the samc,except that on side A the long levers 1 2 are attached to the slides, and on the other side, A, levers 3 4 are attached to slides B B on that side, the same as lever 1 2 are on side A, by slots and pins. These levers are secured to rods f 9, running under the fan-case, the same as rods (1 e, and having on the side A short levers 3 4, similar to 1 2 on the other side, A.

In Fig. 1 side A is shown with one side of the slides open, B, and the other side, B, shut. ()n the opposite side, A, both slides are closed.

In Fig. 2 both slides of the side A are shut, and both open in side A.

Of course any adjustment of the slides on either side, or both, is thus obtained by the person attending to the working of the machine from the side where he stands. Each lever only operates its particular slide. it is applicable to any fan-ease where such an adjustment of the airo 'ienings or slides is important to be opera-ted from a single side.

In a grain-separator, a faucase having its air-inlet openings provided with valves, said valves being each connected to a rocking rod passing through the machine, and provided with lever-arms to enable said valves to be indepeinlently adjusted from either side of the machine, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have l'lereunto-signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES H. FALING.

Witnesses:

J. R. DRAKE, '1. H. PARSONS. 

